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Vol. 17 No. 34
Federal Inspections Start Monday
U.S.Wrests Meat from Pa.
Meat inspection in the state of Pennsylvania
will pass from the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture on Monday, July 17.
The state had been fighting the federal
takeover for the past several months. Paul
Carey, of the state attorney general’s office,
called Lancaster Farming Friday morning and
said they had lost a last-ditch effort to get a
restraining order preventing the takeover.
Judge Herman, in Harrisburg’s federal
district court, heard the state’s plea Thursday
Defense Committee
Pegs Lancaster Co.
Ag Loss at *25 mil.
Farm damages in Lancaster
County from tropical storm
Agnes were pegged at $25.2
million during a meeting last
week .of a county agricultural
defense committee. The meeting
was attended by officials of
various USDA agencies, and the
Lancaster Civil Defense
Director.
Crop damage accounted for
$13,567,000, farm houses were hit
with an estimated $5,946,000.
$5,000,000 was the figure for land
erosion damage, and farm
buildings accounted for $600,000
in damages.
Another $395,000 was said to be
lost to damaged machinery and
equipment, wells, community
water and sewer facilities, stored
feed, fertilizer and other ag
chemicals, and livestock.
According to Miss Dorothy
Neel, the figures are fairly ac
curate estimates, which will be
Twins Alfred and Art Reist (Art is on the right), will be two
of the volunteer slaves for the July 28 Farm and Home
Center auction.
reported to the federal govern
ment. The figures will be used
there to determine what, if any,
relief will be coming to Lancaster
County.
The biggest dollar loss is ex
pected to be in the tobacco crop,
Miss Neel said. Storms and floods
have reduced anticipated tobacco
harvest from 32 million pounds to
20.8 million pounds, for a dollar
loss of $4.5 million.
Grain com has also been hit
hard. A pre-storm production
estimate for the county was 10.3
million bushels. The post-Agnes
figure is 8.2 million bushels, for a
cumulative dollar loss of $2 7
million.
Dollar value of alfalfa hay is
expected to be down about $2.3
million, other hay should be off
$650,000. Barley income is ex
pected to drop some $780,000,
fresh vegetables $500,000 and
potatoes $294,000.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 15,1972
night and decided not to issue a restraining or
der. He did, however, schedule a full hearing for
Thursday, July 20.
This means that all meat plants in the state,
except those which come under the heading of
custom-exempt, will have to be visited by a
federal meat inspector on Monday in order to
keep their doors open. Custom-exempt are those
which process meat for farmers and others who
bring meat to the processor.
Inspectors will be on hand Monday for the
inspections, this newspaper was told by Dr.
Lancaster County 4-H’ers played host
this week to 4-H delegations from Michigan
and North Carolina. Ten youngster came
from Michigan, and are pictured here with
County Leads State in
1971 Farm Production
Preliminary figures indicate
production and income increases
last year for Lancaster County
farmers. Dairying again led the
way, with total cash receipts for
the year estimated at close to last
year’s figure of $4B 7 million
The figures are from the 1971
crop and livestock annual
summary published by the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service. Production figures for
1971 are included in the summary
along with prehmiary income
figures
Precise farm income for the
state and county won’t be
available until later this year,
because of the complicated
computations involving different
marketing seasons for various
crops and animal products
The report did show that the
Volunteers Sought for Form & Home Auction
Volunteers are needed for the
annual Farm and Home Center
Slave auction, according to
Raymond Stoner, chairman for
the event.
Stoner said they are looking for
young men and women between
the ages of 15 and 20, who are
willing to donate one eight-hour
day of labor. At the auction,
Maurice McNay, deputy director of the USDA’s
meat and poultry inspection service in the
Northeastern region
McNay said that at least 250 inspectors are
being brought in from out of state to handle the
inspections on Monday They will inspect some
560 meat plants McNay said he anticipates no
problems either m getting the plants inspected
He said inspectors will take into consideration
the individual merits of each operation, and they
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County’s total cash receipts from
farming operations was $170.5
million for 1970.
Lancaster County again led the
state in milk production for 1971,
with 713 million pounds produced.
The County also topped the
state in the value of meat
animals, field crops and poultry
products produced
Layers in Lancaster County
produced almost a billion eggs
last year worth some $26 million
Nearly 91 million pounds of
broilers were produced for a
production value of $l4 5 million,
and farm chickens and turkeys
brought another $2 9 million to
the area The combined value of
all poultry meat and eggs
produced last year was $43 5
million
Livestock production and in-
bidders will vie for the services of
each volunteer.
Sometime during August, the
volunteer would perform
whatever reasonable chores the
bidder requests. The volunteer
would have to give a maximum of
eight hours, and the time for
performing the service would be
their Lancaster County hosts. They arrived
at the Farm and Home Center Thursday
evening, and they”ll be leaving for home on
Wednesday, July 19.
come figures for the year have
not been computed yet However,
at $71.2 million Lancaster county
led the state in the value of
livestock on farms at the end of
the year The county had 134,000
hogs valued at $3.9 million,
218,200 cattle and calves valued
at $67 2 million and 7,900 sheep
valued at $172,900 Lancaster led
in hogs and cattle, but there were
several counties with more
sheep
The value of production for all
field crops, fruits and vegetables
was pegged at $5O 7 million Corn
was the leading crop, with gram
production valued at $l2 7 million
and silage production at $ll
million Tobacco was the number
two crop with a production value
of $lO 1 million, and hay was next
with a value of $9 7 million
agreed upon by the bidder and
the volunteer
The sale will be conducted July
28 at the Farm and Home Center
auditorium It will start at 8 30
pm, but there will be a
volleyball game for volunteers
starting at 7:30
All proceeds from the sale will
go to the Farm and Home Center.
■ /$2.00 Rehear